Rendering Engine's

Is there any other rendering engines that can be used to speed up the Hidden Frame rendering? Since this isn't a GPU based render, I didn't know if Octane could be used to make this a GPU render? I'm trying to avoid buying a 16 core Xeon if there's a GPU rendering option available? I would think a GTX 1080 (CUDA) would render a Hidden Frame quicker than a CPU? Maybe I'm wrong? Does anyone have some experience with this? Thanks

By dinga, March 14, 2017
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Hidden Line has a large portion that is still single core, the geometry phase. When you render, if you watch your CPU usage is it maxing all of the available cores during the HL rendering? If not, a better CPU will not speed things up. OpenGL uses a completely different system that is much faster and more modernized to calculate geometry before displaying the final results.